Word Finder - narrows

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To reduce in width or extent; to contract.

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We need to narrow the search.

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To get narrower.

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The road narrows.

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(of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.

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He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.

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To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

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To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.

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to narrow an int variable to a short variable

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A narrow part of a navigable waterway.

Stormy weather caused some delays in continuing the programme, but heavily armed vessels 'made their way a short distance up channel on several days early in March and engaged some of the enemy works that were sited about the Narrows.'

Carden, decided, under some pressure from home, to undertake an onset in full force upon the defences of the Narrows by day, although mine-fields still forbade a close attack on the forts on the part of battleships.

Birdwood's force had taken root since April were spurs of a tangled mountain mass known as Sari Bair, from the topmost ridges of which the Straits about the Narrows were partially visible at a distance of 4 or 5 miles.

Forts Wadsworth and Tompkins commanding the passage of the Narrows constitute one of the strongest defences of New York Harbor.

After a fresh reorganization during the night an attempt was yet again made on the gth to win the mountain, and that day some British and Indian troops actually fought their way on to a commanding summit from which the Narrows could be seen, only, however, speedily to be driven off again.

South Beach, below the Narrows, is a popular seaside resort.

The British army under Sir William Howe landed at the Narrows on the 3rd of July 1777 and until the close of the war Staten Island was held by the British and Loyalists.

In the War of 1812 Fort Richmond was built at the Narrows and Fort Tompkins in the rear of it.

It may be added that this belt narrows greatly towards the east, mainly from the south, in sympathy with the northward flow of cold water off the coast of South America.

On the 22nd of August he crossed the Narrows to the Long Island 20,000 on the 25th, and on the 27th surprised the Americans, driving them into their Brooklyn works and inflicting a loss of about 1400 men.

The orifice of invagination (blastopore) narrows, and we now have a two-cell-layered sac - the gastrula.

The system at no point narrows to a single range; generally there are three or four across its breadth.

The exact relation between the two was, however, a matter of controversy, Aquinas and Duns Scotus holding that both are practical reason, while Bonaventura narrows synderesis to the volitional tendency to good actions.

The Luapula, which leaves Bangweulu at its most southern point, is about a mile wide at the outflow, but soon narrows to 300 or so yds.

Towards the north a narrow mouth gives entry to the Limfjord, or Liimfjord, which, wide and ramifying among islands to the west, narrows the east and pierces through to the Cattegat, thus isolating the counties of Hjorring and Thisted (known together as Vendsyssel).

At the lower end of the west water-front, facing the Narrows, are a United States reservation and the harbour defences of Fort Hamilton.

It narrows to the north and the altitude declines in the same direction.

Most of the rivers of the northern versant are comparatively small, as the island narrows into a kind of promontory.

The Alpenkorps were making good headway on the slopes above the road, where the Taro brigade, surprised in the mist, made a feeble resistance, and Lequis's left-hand column quickly reached the Italian second line, where the valley narrows below the hamlet of Foni.

The average breadth of this northern Pathan district is 150 m., but it narrows to less than I oo m.

The general breadth is from 22 to 3 m., but between Stone Point on the mainland and Egypt Point on the north coast of Wight it narrows to 14 m.; and 32 m.

The floods come in May and June, and during the wet season the rivers, all with steep beds in their upper courses, wash along detritus that lower down narrows, and on smaller streams almost chokes, their courses.

Beyond Culver's Gap the mountain again narrows to a ridge, and for a portion of its length it is double-crested.

The 1 As early as 1613, Captain Samuel Argall, on his way to Virginia, after breaking up some Jesuit settlements at Port Royal, and Mount Desert, passed through the Narrows near the mouth of the Hudson, and finding a group of Dutch traders, made them haul down their flag and replace it with that of England.

In northern Ecuador the Andes narrows into a single massive range which has the character of a confused mass of peaks and ridges on the southern frontier of Colombia.

Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m., where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than thirty-five formidable rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which La Condamine embarked in the t8th century to descend the Amazon.

Finally, after passing the narrows of Guaracayo, the cerros gradually disappear, and for a distance of about 20 m.

The course of the Wye now becomes extremely sinuous; and the valley narrows nearly to Chepstow.

A spur of the Greben mountains runs out below two shoals where the river suddenly narrows to 300 yds.

At Bamba it is shut in by steep banks and narrows to 600 to 700 yds., again spreading out some distance down.

Here the width of the stream increases at flood time to woo or 1500 yds., and though it narrows at the somewhat dangerous rapids of Rumde Gilla to 150 or 180 yds., it soon expands again.

The middle Niger, however, reaches its maximum near Timbuktu only in January; in February and March it sinks slowly above the narrows of Tosaye, and more rapidly below them, the level being kept up by supplies from backwaters and lakes; and by April there is a decrease of about 5 ft.

Here the Nile narrows and passes the Semna cataract, and graven on the rocks are ancient records of " high Nile."

The horizontal ramus, long, straight, and compressed, gradually narrows towards the symphysis, where it expands laterally to form with the ankylosed opposite ramus the wide, semicircular, shallow alveolar border for the incisor teeth.

At the end of the ledge, the path narrows where a steel handrail aids further progress down to river level.

The track soon narrows to a path that descends a slope to a gate with a stile set in the fence beside it.

Setting sail in the evening, we pass by historic Frobisher Bay and head southeast through the narrows.

Between the falls and Bakel (85 m.) there are twenty-seven "narrows," of which several, such as that at Kayes, are difficult.

This wellknown strait was a sacred place to the Crees and Saulteaux, who, impressed by the weird sound made by the wind as it rushed through the narrows, as simple children of the prairies called them Manito-Waba, or the " Great Spirit's narrows."

Sir Ian Hamilton, who had been chosen as commander-in-chief of the military contingents that were to cooperate in due course with the naval forces in this theatre of war, had moreover actually arrived on the day before the abortive fleet attack upon the Narrows and had witnessed the fight.

Hamilton had resolved on making the Gallipoli Peninsula his objective, intending to secure high ground which dominated the Narrows from that side.

The tail is wide at the base and narrows along the length of it.

This immediately narrows the cuisine down to a particular group and makes it easy to choose from a selection of appetizers and main courses.

The size of the ships make it possible for them to travel through Wrangell Narrows, a small Alaskan town, before arriving in Petersburg.

Animal DNA Services has developed a test that narrows down your dog's ancestry to four major canine groups, as well as screens for four inherited diseases and certain physical/personality traits.

This narrows your throat and causes the walls of your throat to vibrate as you breathe in and out.

This narrows down the possibilities, and eventually, you'll be able to correctly place one person or item.

When a child has croup, that portion of the airway just below the vocal cords narrows and becomes swollen, making breathing both noisy and labored.

Corticosteroids block the inflammation that narrows the airways.

As the fear of an attack escalates, the person's world narrows.